weekly news - 20040326

[maintainer at lunar-linux.org]

Hi!

Here's the latest weekly news edition!

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Quite the busy week folks, read along!

Amongst others I've been busy in the last couple of weeks doing quite the
bit of coding on the core. Some people may have noticed some weird things
happening with theedge, but all of those should be gone now ;^). There were
a surprising number of open ends and architectural ideas me and others
hadn't followed up on. Amazing.

The 'lunar set' command has been added, use it to view all, specific or even
set variables used by lunar internally. Usefull for people who like to tinker
with those variables. A new concept will be the MODULE_PREFIX handling,
allowing per-module or grouped prefix rotation. This will make lunar behave
completely the same, but will allow us developers to -much more easily-
compile different concurrent versions (amongst others). Hopefully docs
will catch up on that soon so you can try it out as well.

Nestu informs others that although his 2.6-mm kernel is horribly unstable,
util-linux now compiles fine and should be usable: "well, now it is patched
to compile with 2.6 headers". 

Mister Nick "I GNOME" hudson has been preparing the arrival of gnome
2.6. For a little creature gnome-2.6 has been quite a delivery, as it still
is not released as we speak (he must be bigger than his smaller brother!).
Managed to create a Xorg module as well, which is the pre-killus-we-write-
mean-licenses fork of xfree86-4.4. Meanwhile he supposedly has a life,
incredible.

Speaking about docs, we've taken up the massive task of getting some more,
better and well-written documents. Hopefully everyone kicks in and helps
out with one of the *many* documents we have in the planning. Amongst others,
this list will include Networking, Security, Gnome, KDE, kernel-2.6 and more...
Anyone who feels like it is hereby invited to join the effort. Even if you 
want to write one paragraph about *anything*... please help!

Sometime soon we'll cut over theedge to lunar BTW, there might be some
cosmetic ruffles on that but we'll make sure the transition is tested
before we put it out. See ya next week!

/sofar


meanwhile in #lunar:

   bkw-laptop | I think florin will do the gnome docs
        florin| i hope not to see more apps like kvirc or i will switch to xfce4 for good.
       iCEBaLM| please don't explain anything to my privates
              * dbguin_grunt beats iCEBaLM repeatedly with a huge vacuum cleaner
         tchan| *cough*troll*cough*
          ep98| sofar my mistake, from times ago when only DOS and Windows 3.1x was born and Linux of course
              * sofar imagines bill gates having contractions
         nestu| aborting, you mean?
         nestu| IAC = in any case

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New modules:
      f-spot-0.0.1: F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal 
photo management to the GNOME desktop.
     knetmap-0.2.0: KNetmap is a network discovery, scanning, and probing tool for KDE.
     krename-2.8.5: The batch renamer for KDE 3.x
  kvirc-3.0.0-beta2: Enhanced visual IRC client for X11/KDE
       micq-0.4.11: mICQ is small, portable, yet powerful console-based ICQ client
     mysqltcl-2.50: A simple API for Mysql-Database and Tcl scripting language.
         njam-1.21: Njam is a full-featured cross-platform pacman-like game

New versions:
  MozillaThunderbird      :             0.4 ->             0.5
  apache2                 :          2.0.48 ->          2.0.49
  clamav                  :            0.66 ->          0.68-1
  curl                    :          7.11.0 ->          7.11.1
  dvd+rw-tools            :      5.13.4.7.4 ->      5.17.4.8.6
  eclipse-bin             :           2.1.2 ->           2.1.3
  file                    :            4.07 ->            4.08
  fvwm                    :          2.4.17 ->          2.4.18
  gimp                    :           1.2.5 ->           2.0.0
  gthumb                  :           2.3.1 ->           2.3.2
  k3b                     :          0.11.6 ->          0.11.7
  kaffeine                :           0.4.1 ->           0.4.2
  kile                    :           1.6.1 ->           1.6.2
  libao                   :           0.8.3 ->           0.8.5
  libmng                  :           1.0.6 ->           1.0.7
  libxml2                 :           2.6.7 ->           2.6.8
  libxslt                 :           1.1.4 ->           1.1.5
  linux-beta              :       2.6.5-rc1 ->       2.6.5-rc2
  linux-beta-mm           :   2.6.5-rc1-mm2 ->   2.6.5-rc2-mm3
  linux-openmosix         :          2.4.23 ->          2.4.25
  mcs                     :          0.30.2 ->            0.31
  mjpegtools              :        1.6.1.93 ->           1.6.2
  module-init-tools       :          0.9.14 ->             3.0
  mono                    :          0.30.2 ->            0.31
  parted                  :           1.6.6 ->           1.6.7
  plib                    :           1.6.0 ->           1.8.0
  postfix                 :          2.0.18 ->          2.0.19
  psiconv                 :           0.9.3 ->           0.9.4
  psyco                   :           1.1.1 ->             1.2
  reiserfsprogs           :          3.6.13 ->          3.6.14
  sqlite                  :           2.8.9 ->          2.8.13
  subversion              :           1.0.0 ->           1.0.1
  tuxkart                 :           0.2.0 ->           0.4.0
  xchat                   :           2.0.7 ->           2.0.8
  xplanet                 :           1.0.4 ->           1.0.5
  xqf                     :          0.9.13 ->          0.9.14


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The Lunar-Linux team